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  Posted by crouchee (U13371975) on Saturday, 27th December 2008

  Forty years ago Percy Thrower was sowing seeds in the greenhouse, forty years later Toby will be doing much the same. Trouble is, the item will be too brief for beginners to get a real grasp of the subject, and the rest of us will be yawning.
  
  What next? Personally I am a big fan of TV gardening competitions, but it's time for a change! We have seen any amount of makeovers, we've even been round the world.
  
  What would you like to see?
  
  Crouchee
  

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  Posted by hotsunlover (U5664870) on Sunday, 28th December 2008

  I would like to see more gardens from around the world. I found Monty's programme a real eye opener that left me wanting more. Maybe something about modern day plant hunters would be interesting as a one off programme. Roy Lancaster would be good for this.
  Programmes from behind the scenes at RHS gardens would be good, it would show us a different side to the RHS.
  
  I would love a programme for more experienced gardeners but I have requested this so many times I sound like a broken record.

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  Posted by Tigerredwood (U13742280) on Tuesday, 30th December 2008

  I would like to see a program where the experts take an regular average size back garden that most people have and show how to produce veg and fruit to feed their family from scratch. Maybe different locations throughout the UK could be used so that regional problems with weather and suchlike could be overcome. I do not mean a garden makeover program with celebrities getting their fingernails dirty but an in depth program that could benefit everybody from scratch. Maybe just 5 minutes per week on GW showing the progress in all the locations would be a program I would definitely like to see. Yes I know allotments fulfil this criteria and is being done on GW at the moment, but I'm sure that there is an army of would be gardeners out there if they were given the chance. Herein lies the challenge how to make it happen.

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  Posted by Obelixx (U2157162) on Wednesday, 31st December 2008

  I recently watched a tribute to AH and his 7 yrs on GW and he said something very important, to me at least. Gardeners' World is about the craft of gardening and communicating how good it can feel to garden successfully so that people are inspired to try.
  
  For me, GW should concentrate on the how, what, where and when of gardening from seed sowing to taking cuttings, lifting and dividing, planting out, pruning, weeding, creating wildlife habitat, composting, making basic garden structures such as paths, obelisks and coldframes, harvesting fruit, veggies and cut flowers, identifying and controlling pests and diseases as well as what's in season and what's new to try be it plants, tools or methods.
  
  These could all be covered by the existing presenters but I'd like to see Joe returned to design features and have a real expert on fruit and veg plus a regular contribution from an experts on pests and diseases. For GW, visits to successful nurseries, gardens and gardeners would add to the knowledge of what looks good together and how to achieve it. Needless to say I'd like to see all this done with the camera clearly focussed on the task in hand rather than the presenter's face or some misty view through foliage. No soundtrack is needed other than the presenter's voice.
  
  I think regular visits to the big RHS gardens plus others of note in Scotland, Wales and Ireland would make essential viewing but there is enough material there for a whole new weekly show. There's also a whole show just crying out to be made about Yellow Book gardens and a series about gardens in northern Europe would also be fascinating and would show what different historical and social evolution has done for garden design and management in areas with similar climatic conditions to the UK - northern France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany have plenty of material.

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  Posted by jo4eyes (U13654107) on Wednesday, 31st December 2008

  Hear hear Obelix! Think you've hit the nail on the head.
  Do you fancy a job at beeb? Let's hope someone reads your post & takes note. J.

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  Posted by Tigerredwood (U13742280) on Wednesday, 31st December 2008

  Hello Obelixx,
  I agree with you 100% especially with the camera and sountrack view. Early this morning I watched the repeat of GOTD on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã and that infuriating whoosh sound was even worse than the first time I heard it. Whoever was responsible for that on the show should be sent to the headmasters office for 6 of the best and a thousand lines at least. The rest of your post is exactly what I wanted to say but you put it far more eloquently.

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